What the Debit Card Interchange Fee Reform Has Achieved
The Durbin Amendment benefited the largest merchants and smaller banks, but consumers, especially the big-bank customers, will suffer through its consequences....
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Heavier U.S. Credit Card Users Live on the Coasts
The distribution of Americans who charge $700 or more per month on their credit cards is also an accurate representation of the country's political landscape....
Checks Still Dominate P2P Payments and Other Facts
Despite the highly-publicized arrival of various new forms of P2P payments in the U.S. over the past decade and a half, paper checks still dominate the niche....
Do You Have More Savings or Credit Card Debt?
If you owe more on your credit cards than you have in savings, you are not alone, far from it: a quarter of Americans are in the same boat as you are....
Alaska Leads Nation in Credit Card Debt, by a Wide Margin
Alaskans carried $7,012 in credit card debt in Q4 2012, on average, way ahead of Connecticut residents who owed $5,820; Iowans had the lowest debt average....